In 1947, US pilot Captain Chuck Yeager was the first person to go supersonic and fly faster than the speed of sound, or Mach I. He flew at more than 1,100km/h... But on 14 October, the big day, Chuck was feeling... "Rotten... My wife and I had been out to a dinner party a couple of nights before and we were riding horses. I couldn't drive the horse as well as I could drive airplanes, so I ended up with a couple of broken ribs. That's the way it goes." Undeterred, Chuck flew the orange, single-se
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In 1947, US pilot Captain Chuck Yeager was the first person to go supersonic and fly faster than the speed of sound, or Mach I. He flew at more than 1,100km/h... But on 14 October, the big day, Chuck was feeling... "Rotten... My wife and I had been out to a dinner party a couple of nights before and we were riding horses. I couldn't drive the horse as well as I could drive airplanes, so I ended up with a couple of broken ribs. That's the way it goes." Undeterred, Chuck flew the orange, single-se
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